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• No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

  Earl Wilson

  Horse, Gambling

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• They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

  Oscar Gamble

  Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

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• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Gambling, Inspirational Football

  "A Film of One’s Own". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2006.

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• In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species

  Edward Davey

  Children, Reality, Demand

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• If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wisdom, Winning, Ifs

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• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  Edmund H. North

  Thinking, Differences, Risk

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• To us, investing is the equivalent of going out and betting against the pari-mutuel system. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning, and that pays three to one. In other words, we're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is, and you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Winning, Two

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• I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Giving Up, Winning, Games

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.267, City Lights Books

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• It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

  Mario Puzo

  Science, Men, Gambling

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• I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally gonna come.' When you start thinkin' business and you start thinkin' 'What's hot? What's the wave? Who is hot? Let's get at that person,' it becomes a point where you're tryin' to strategize to make money. And that's always a gamble.

  Akon

  Long, Hot, Making Money

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.

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• The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Long, Good Company

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving, Patient, Signals

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• The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Country, Wall, Depth

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• When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

  Michael Andretti

  Motivational, Racing, Littles

  "CHAMPCAR/CART: Michael Andretti Interview". Motorsport.com Interview, www.motorsport.com. May 17, 2000.

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• You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.

  John Dufresne

  Sex, Balance, Guilt

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is.

  Steve McClaren

  Paper, Papers, Knows

  "Boro take honours in red-herring dress rehearsal" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2006.

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• My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

  Bill Rodgers

  Motivational, Running, Feelings

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• You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

  James Sinegal

  Jobs, Mistake, Educated

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• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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• There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Cutting, Gambling

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.235, Penguin

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• We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Long, Atmosphere

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• Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Life, Wise, Sometimes

  Jerome K. Jerome, Martin Green (2008). “The Other Jerome K. Jerome”, History PressLtd

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• Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Plans

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• The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

  Elias Canetti

  Mad, Effort, Survival

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